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30. You make us hereby seem a tender and a factious people, that see motes in the eyes of others, but not beams in our own▪ who can aggravate the sins of others, yea, the public worship into Idolatry it self; But when we come to our party, we take it for a reproach to Christianity, to be called dull, or ignorant, or injudicious.

30. You make us hereby seem a tender and a factious people, that see motes in the eyes of others, but not beams in our own▪ who can aggravate the sins of others, yea, the publick worship into Idolatry it self; But when we come to our party, we take it for a reproach to Christianity, to be called dull, or ignorant, or injudicious.

31. You show by this that your censure of the Conformists is so high, as to make them all to be no Christians indeed. For you cannot think that an Idolater is not Ignorant and Injudicious: and so no Christian with you. But he that wrote Mr. Bolton's life, thought otherwise.

31. You shew by this that your censure of the Conformists is so high, as to make them all to be no Christians indeed. For you cannot think that an Idolater is not Ignorant and Injudicious: and so no Christian with you. But he that wrote Mr. Bolton's life, thought otherwise.

32. You abuse the Scripture, 1 Joh. 2. 20. 27. to countenance all this; As the Quakers do [He that is born of God sinneth not.] Calvin truly noteth that by [knowing all things, he meaneth not universally; sed ad praesentis loci circumstantiam restringi debet;] It is, the All things which the apostates there reproved did deny. As the Prophet saith, They shall not need to teach one another saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know him:—And yet they might have need to teach one another an hundred other truths, though they all knew the true God from Idols. So here to know all things, is to be knowing persons, in comparison of the infidels and apostates; (which, saith Calvin, he speaketh to procure a fair audience with them:) As if he should